NEW YORK (AP) — A teary-eyed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Monday recounted hiding in her office bathroom as a man repeatedly yelled “Where is she?” during the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, and also revealed a sexual assault in her past as she talked about trauma.
The remembered terror of the day made Ocasio-Cortez get emotional as she spoke during an Instagram live video, and she chastised those she said wanted Americans to put the day behind them and not recognize the lingering impact of such an event.
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“These folks who tell us to move on, that it’s not a big deal, that we should forget what’s happened, or even telling us to apologize, these are the same tactics of abusers,” she said.
She went on to say, “I’m a survivor of sexual assault. … When we go through trauma, trauma compounds on each other.” She didn’t say anything else about that experience.
Ocasio-Cortez said the atmosphere around the Capitol and Washington had started to feel more tense and volatile in the days before the insurrection.
On that day, she said she was in her office when she heard repeated bangs on the door, like someone was trying to get in. Her legislative director told her to hide, and she went into the bathroom.
That was when she heard a man yelling and trying to find her. “I have never been quieter in my life,” she said.
She came out shortly after when her legislative director told her to, and saw a Capitol police officer in the office. She said the officer told them to go to another building, but didn’t say specifically where or escort them, leaving her feeling unsafe.
“You don’t know if that person was actually trying to protect you or not,” she said.
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Come on Woman ! I am not believing anything YOU say.
Yep… these people from the now communist party formally the useless democrat party would rather lie when the truth would serve them better. The arrogance and narcissistic personality disorder these demons have thinking they are so much smarter than everyone else that they can lie and deceive and get away with it is quite back setting.
I never believe anything that any liberal ever says. And it doesn’t matter who they are or what they’re saying.
TILL THEY SHOW facts, neither will I believe a damn thing a leftists says.
she ‘may have been’ sexually assaulted in the past, but that is entirely different from the scenario she was placed in at the US Capital Building.
She was NEVER in danger, and if rape had been on the mind of any attacker, there were plenty of more desirable targets that smell less like barnyard leftovers.
She just wants sympathy.
and… IF she truly was ‘sexually assaulted’ she just CHEAPENED THE EXPERIENCE.
I doubt ANY individual would wanna ‘sexually assault her’…
Maybe the Trump legal team should call her to testify at the Senate trial. This would be especially good if they could prove that she lied.
“Surviver of sexual assault.” Was she the victim, or the perpetrator?
Wouldn’t matter. SHE is a dem, so in the media’s eyes, SHE IS ONLY EVER A victim.
#BelieveAllMarxists
They never lie for political gain…
“The insurrection”
Ph-t-t-t-t-t!
“That was when she heard a man yelling and trying to find her. “I have never been quieter in my life,” she said.”
It is most likely that it was a staff member trying to account for the Congressperson.
Occasional Cortex can’t run fast enough to get away from her socialist insanity which clings to her like a shadow and grows larger as she retreats from the American Light. I hope she and her squad are waiting for the Politrical Science to follow of the Somalia, Kenyan or Haitian invented Vaccine. Then soon she won’t be able to run at all,,,for office or from her own created Political American mischief.
Since she can no longer be on an offensive offense against President Trump the only path to notariety is to play the victim, and do it to the hilt she will. Gone is the simple naivete about a kitchen sink garbage disposal to the target of death threats from another member of Congress and or being stalked by rioters. Perhaps it was a Capitol Police Officer ferreting out hidden ‘peaceful’ demonstrators or someone upset that the job he was expecting from Amazon was nixed in his district which she represents. There was very much drama in the performance, acting like nobility during The Reign of Terror hiding from the commoners’ mob!
AND like always, the media will LET HER play the victim, without a SINGLE BLOODY question of “Where are the facts!”
If a Democrat tells you it’s raining outside, do what I do, Go to the window to check.
I wouldn’t believe anything AOC tells me.
Yep, if you hide in a bathroom in your office, that will really protect one from an intruder, won’t it Ocasio Cortez? Of course you being the “drama queen” that you are, you made all of this up, didn’t you, Ocasio Cortez? After all liberals are liars and bull artists!
She wasn’t even in her office.
She was escorted to a more secure office of another house member.
That is true, at least that was her story the first week of January. Now she hid in her office bathroom. Cruz had tried to have her murdered…. As time goes on, the story will keep changing. Bet she changes her story and says she realized it was Cruz saying “where is she…”
Yeah with ax in hand, head through door and yelling, “It’s Teddy….”
Sadly her mother did not avail herself to the abortion she seems to like so well.
It’s not to late. My mother used to tell me, I brought you into this world and I can take you out of it. I am sure her mother can do the same thing.
COMMENTnow, Post Partum Abortion is acceptable to the left.
I’m just waiting for them to announce a maximum time frame.
10 minutes?
2 days?
37 years?
the failure of her mother is a STAIN on America!
ALL commucrats like her, deserve to get post birth aborted…
I don’t know whether to believe AOC on this new tale or not. It seems that she always finds some way to be the center of attention. I guess now that biden is putting her green new deal into operation and she’s no longer relevant, she has to find some other way to stay in the spotlight. She was probably hoping that biden would reward her with some sort of position on climate change, but that went to Kerry instead.
First she tried to be the victim with the Capitol attack by claiming that she thought she was going to die. Then she accused Ted Cruz of attempted murder and is trying to get him kicked out of the Senate.
Now she’s still playing the victim role by claiming she’s was sexually assaulted. I don’t know if it’s true or not, but Ted Cruz look out! AOC seems to be out to get you lately.
COMMENTGive me a break!! Someone call the men in white jackets ASAP!
Since the left RUNS THE asylums, she’d be let out..
There was never a breach by rioters into the areas where Congress critters actually were, so the story is a lie. If AOC was actually assaulted sexually in the past, it is absolute confirmation that it is dominance, not lust or desire, that fuels sexual assaults!
AOCnoevilontheleft has twice survived hemispherectomy.
I take things like this with a grain of salt. History is full of these victim stories which turn out not to be true when investigated. The mainstream media is unlikely to question any part of AOC’s account. The story of the Duke lacrosse players keep coming to mind.
You expect anyone to actually INVESTIGATE those claims?? I certainly don’t.
Only the gullible would ever believe anything that is spewed from that filthy mouth. Dems gauge each other on the ability to sway minds that can be swayed.
The only sexual assault this has been of a cheap bordello is while working in the back room of the bar she was once employed at, she “serviced” a “customer” (also called a john) and didn’t get paid. It’s too bad this stupid idiotic twit brings something like this up because it’s harmful to the women who really have been abused. This woman should lay down on a set of heavily used railroad tracks.
I have started a Go-Fund-Me account for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The purpose is to get her a Glock 19 and the training to properly use it. Hopefully there will be enough money left over to get her the psychological counseling she seems to so badly need. At a minimum I think she needs to be treated for being a fabulist. But what do I know beyond how to plink beer cans with my Glock?
I wouldn’t waste a dime, getting her a gun.. SHE HAS ENOUGH MONEY TO GET herself one!
Funny that during last year’s BLM riots she never had any sympathy for all the people who really were hurt or killed or had their livelihoods destroyed or even just cowered in fear as the rioters broke and burned things all around them. In fact, as I recall, she even said she thought the “unrest” was a good thing and should go on until … well, until Social Justice and the Green New Deal.
Another example of AOC’s NBS (non-stop BS).
This story by “Sandy” AOC Smollett just keeps getting more hilarious all of the time. When one finds themselves in a hole, then stop digging.
She and “Corn Pop” Biden belong together in a basement.